This is a copy of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Clandestine Service Historical Paper 208, titled "Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq Of Iran, November 1952- August 1953." Written by CIA Agent Donald N. Wilbur in March, 1954, it describes the history of the CIA's TPAJAX Project, its plan to work with the UK to facilitate a coup d'etat in Iran.

The CIA has never declassified the document, but it was leaked to the New York Times and published online in April, 2000 here: http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html. As part of the release, the New York Times explained that it chose to "publish the main body of the text after removing certain names and identifying descriptions . The editing was done after consultations with historians who believed there might be serious risk that the families of some of those named as foreign agents would face retribution in Iran."

For a copy of this and other CIA documents related to the coup, as well as analysis of the U.S. role in the coup, see the National Security Archive web page here: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/

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